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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH B. SEE, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NEWV YORK.

SHIRT.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 246,039, dated August 23, 1881.

Application filed May 9, 1881. (N0 model.)

Be it knowri that I, JOSEPH B. SEE, of Poughkeepsie, in the count-y of Dntchess and State of New York,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement; in Shir-ts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to shirts in which the lines 0f stitching which -secure the sides 0f the bosom to the body are et some distance fron1 the extreme edges of the bosom, thus leaving a free er raised edge or margin bat the invention is applicable to other shirts.

The object 0f the invention is to give a fin- 1'sh t0 the upper parts 0f the free marginal per lions ot' the bosom without connecting them with the yoke, and so preventing the 1atter from proper play upward and downgvard 0n the shoulder 0f the wearer, and withont exposing the eontracted edge 0f the upper part 0f the bosom, as has been done in some shirts wheu tl1e outer finished edge of the bos om has been brought direetly into tl1e neekband.

Tbe invention consists in the combination, with the body and neekband 0f a shirt, and with a yoke constrncted witlr pockets whieh are formed by leaving the lower edge 0f tbe voke nnattached to the body for a little distance fr0m the neekband and extending short diagonal seams upward i'r0m tl1e termination 0f the yoke-seams t0 tl1e neckband, 0f a bosom whieh is secured t0 the bodyalong both sides up to the yoke-se'ams, and whieh extends int'o said poekets and is secured to the neekband above said pokets, as i'nlly hereinafter deseribed.

'lhe accompanyingdrawing reprvsents emporti0n of a shirl: embodying my invention.

A designates the body 0f the shirt. B designates the neekband, and 0 designates the bosom.

The bosom 0 is here shown as secured to the body by sems a, which extend along near the side edges 0f the bosom up to the yokeseam, leavin g a free 01 raised margin, C. The raised. 01 free margin 01 edge O runs up under the lower edge of the yoke A and. is secured in the seam whieh attaches Lhe neckband 130 the body.

The seams b, whieh secure the yoke A to the body 0f the shirt, are not continuc'ad entirely 150 the neckband B, but are discontinued at c, and from that point a short diagonal sea-m, d, is earried inward and upward upon eaeh side of and int0 the neekband. Bythis manner of conneeting the yoke I form up0n eaeh side 0t' the neekbandl5a pocketD intowhieh the free or raised edge or margin O extends. This free edge 01 margin is not secured, except in the neckband-seam, and is free t0 m0ve withont affeeting the body of tl1e shirt.

In the drawing I have represented the' upper end 0f the raised ed ge 01 margin as slightly cnrled 0r rolled over, t0 indicate that it is entirely free and is loose in the pocket D upon that side 0f the shirt.

It will be clearly nnderstood from tl1is sonstrnetion tha-t the yoke and shoulder 0f tbe shirt are free t0 move up and d0wn iudependenfly 0f the bosom, the point e, at which the raised or free edge 01 margin of the bosom O runsinto and is secred in the neekband, serving as a center, upon which the yoke may move freely up or down relatively t0 and independent-1y ot' the bosom.

I am aware that it is old to secure a bosom ab one side only t0 the body 0f the shirt, leaving an opening at the other side of the bosom, and t0 extend the upper end 0f the free side 0t' the bosom under tbe yoke, but in such case the npper free end of tl1e bosom, although in nasses under the yoke, is not seeured to tb'e neckband above the yoke. In my shirt the -upper and outer edges 0f both sides of the bos0u1 not only pass under the voke, but are permanently secured t0 the neckband above the yoke, and both sides of xny bosom are secured 110 the body up to the yoke-seam.

What I elaim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'lhe coxnbination, with the body A, the neckband B, and the yoke A, construeted With opeu pockets D, 0f the bosom O, secured to the body along both sides up to tl1e yokeseam extending into said poekets and secured t0 tl1e neekband above said pockets, substantially as 'and for tl1e purpose specified.

JOSEPH B. SEE.

Witnesses:

HENRY T. BROWN, CHANDLER HALL. 

